Hello everyone welcome to another follow him favorites. John and I are sharing a single story to go with each week's lesson.

John, we're in Helaman 1 through 6 today. You know this is about Nephi and Lehi oh remember my sons there's a lot more

to the chapters than that but I'm going to focus on that one for my story I thought of a story to share with you John. I don't know if you've ever heard it.

There's this moment where Nephi and Lehi are being taught by their father, Heleman, and he said, I've named you Nephi and Lehi so you can remember those who came before you do as they have done

years and years ago back in the 1900s my dad came to my room and he handed me this big blue book and all it said on it was the

Thai family history and he handed it to me like I would be really interested in this book and I opened it up

there's copies of newspaper articles obituaries old pictures of people who aren't smiling right you ever seen those pictures of

pioneers everybody looks super happy yeah I look at this and he said this is an

awesome book I was like dad and he said no let's read through this together I thought this

there's just nothing else I want to do I do remember one specific guy he showed me

his picture and he said this man was very very

wealthy when he joined the church in Denmark by the time he comes to Utah he's lost

all of his money he's helping other members of his branch

cross he had lost a lot of business because he had joined the church it sacrificed

everything even buried a child that's see a two-year-old girl.

So much, and when he gets to Salt Lake, Brigham Young assigned him to go live in Ephraim,

Utah.

When he gets there, he doesn't have enough to build a home. He has to live in one of those

dugouts where they dig the side of the mountain, kind of a cave. Yeah. Unbelievable. You know, I was 16, I thought dad a couple weeks later fast forward. I found myself at a party that I didn't know was going to have things that it shouldn't have there. I go with a friend, we show up to this

party, these weren't my usual friends, and I found myself in the kitchen and there's a bunch of people

I don't know. One of them brings out this six-pack of what looked to me to be

juice because I don't know my alcoholic beverages, John, and he starts passing them out.

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